That major out there, commanding the cannon. That's James Deeran. First in his class at West Point, before Virginia seceeded.
And that boy over there with the color guard. That's Private Robert Tyler Jones. His grandfather... President of the United States.
The colonel behind me. That's Colonel William Henry. Now, his great grandfather was the Virginian Patrick Henry. It was Patrick Henry who said to your King George the Third, 'Give me Liberty, or give me Death.'
There are boys here from Norfolk, Portsmouth, small hamlets along the James River. From Charlottesville and Fredricksburg, and the Shenandoah Valley. Mostly they're all veteran soldiers now. The cowards and shirkers are long gone.
Every man here knows his duty. They would make this charge even without an officer to lead them. They know the gravity of the situation, and the mettle of their foe. They know that this day's work will be desperate, and deadly. They know, that for many of them, this will be their last charge.
But not one of them needs to be told what is expected of him. They are all willing to make the supreme sacrifice. To achieve victory here. The crowning victory, and the end of this war. We are all here. You may tell them, when you return to your country, that all Virginia was here, on this day."
General Armistead, before Pickett's Charge, from the movie "Gettysburg"
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To color all Confederates as racist slavers is nothing but the worst sort of slander, from slimy worms that wouldn't have the guts to do what those men did.
Better men than the race hustlers fought on both sides of that war.
Lightning streaking across the sky bump.
BTTT.
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